Lead Engineer - Robotics Process Automation & Chatbots

As a Lead Engineer, you will work closely with Product Owner and team in a geographically distributed location (Minneapolis and Bangalore) in building a high performing, cutting edge and highly scalable product. The key to the success of this position is having strong & innovative approach to problem solving, great technical leadership, excellent communication (written and verbal, formal and informal), flexibility, and a self-motivated working style with attention to detail.

About the product - Cognitive Robotics Automation – This as a product group started early 2017 and has morphed into multiple products on digital robotics. The automation vision extends across touchpoint of humans to machines and human to human. The vision led to incubate and deliver multiple in-house custom developed products within a span of 20 months incorporating advanced capabilities like natural language processing (NLP), optical/ image character recognition (OCR/ ICR) and artificial intelligence (AI)). These include

Be a significant code contributor, manage overall software development cycle, drive best practices and ensuring development of high quality code

Advocate for technologies, frameworks, design patterns, processes and guiding values of the domain architecture, ensure all code adheres to all platform, development & security standards

Stay current with new technology and be able to assesses to determine viability and applicability to Target's business and technical environments. Identify options, evaluate pros and cons and determine total cost of ownership for tactical and strategic solutions.

Build and manage enterprise scale robotic products

Lead development/ operations in a geographically distributed team within local site scrum team

work with product/ engineering teams and lead technical decision making, adhering to Target platform architecture and other enterprise decisions

Ensure adherence to architecture and development principles around open source, DevOps, Agile, Containerization and Infrastructure

Use data to create business domain specific models, use feedback loop to continuously improve the accuracy

Apply the science of utilizing data to solve business problems, the performance and processing problems of dealing with big data, building web scale systems with high response times

Partner with product teams in building and delivering high value products, iterate on ideas and continue to innovate and incubate.

Be a great team player, mentor team members and help build a team of high caliber software development engineers

Requirements for Software Development:

8+ years of engineering (software development) experience. Experience with at least one full cycle implementation from requirement to production. Experience in building/implementing high performance & scalable server-side applications

Experience operating medium to large scale systems

Experience with test-driven development and software test automation

Strong sense of ownership

Passion for emerging technologies

Strong desire to learn and innovate

Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to variety of audiences